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He pressed the bill to its passage withfurious energy. He set upon Chase savagely, charging him with bad faithin that he had gained time, by a false pretense of ignorance of thebill, to flood the country with slanderous attacks upon it and upon itsauthor. The audacity of the announcement that the Compromise of 1850repealed the Compromise of 1820 was well-nigh justified by the skill ofhis contention. It was a principle, he maintained, and no mere temporaryexpedient, for which Clay and Webster ha...d striven, which both partieshad indorsed, which the country had acquiesced in, --the principle of"popular sovereignty. " That principle lay at the base of ourinstitutions; it was illustrated in all the achievements of our past;it, and it alone, would enable us in safety to go on and extend ourinstitutions into new regions. Cass, though he made difficulties aboutdetails, supported the bill, and the Southerners played their part well. But Douglas afterwards said, and truly: "I passed the Kansas-Nebraskaact myself.
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